Literaturpreis der Stadt München is a

Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...

n literary prize. The prize money is €10,000.

Winners

*1928

Hans Carossa Hans Carossa (15 December 1878 in Bad Tölz, Kingdom of Bavaria – 12 September 1956 in Rittsteig near Passau) was a German novelist and poet, known mostly for his autobiographical novels, and his inner emigration during the Nazi Germany, Nazi e ...

*1929 Willy Seidel *1930 Hans Brandenburg *1931 Josef Magnus Wehner *1932 Ruth Schaumann *1933 Hans Zöberlein *1935

Georg Britting Georg Britting (born 17 February 1891 in Regensburg; died 27 April 1964 in Munich) was a German poet, short story writer, and essayist. Life Britting spent his early years in Regensburg. His writing career began in 1911, when he began publishi ...

*1936

Ludwig Friedrich Barthel Ludwig Friedrich Barthel (12 June 1898, in Marktbreit – 14 February 1962, in Munich) was a German writer. Barthel served in the First World War and was a student in Munich. He was later an archivist () there. His poems, for example "Ta ...

*1937 Alfons von Czibulka *1938 Josef Ponten *1945 Peter Dörfler *1947

Gertrud von le Fort Baroness Gertrud von Le Fort (born Gertrud Auguste Lina Elsbeth Mathilde Petrea Freiin von Le Fort; 11 October 1876 – 1 November 1971) was a German writer. Life Le Fort was born in Minden, in the former Province of Westphalia, then the Kin ...

*1948 Ernst Penzoldt *1949 Georg Schwarz *1950

Annette Kolb Annette Kolb (pseudonym of Anna Mathilde Kolb) was an author, journalist, emigrée and pacifist. Life Kolb was born on 3 February 1870 in Munich, the daughter of a French pianist mother and a German landscape architect father. She was an auth ...

*1951 Gottfried Kölwel *1952

Eugen Roth Eugen Roth (January 24, 1895 – April 28, 1976) was a Bavarian poet who wrote mostly humorous verse. Roth was born in Munich, the son of the well-known Munich writer Hermann Roth. He volunteered for service in the First World War and was s ...

*1953

Mechtilde Lichnowsky Princess Mechtilde Lichnowsky, originally Mechtilde Christiane Marie ''Gräfin von und zu'' Arco-Zinneberg, later Mechtilde Peto (8 March 1879, in Schloss Schönburg, Pocking now in the Kreis Passau – 4 June 1958, in London) was a German aut ...

*1954

Wilhelm Hausenstein Wilhelm Hausenstein (17 June 1882 – 3 June 1957) was a German politician, writer, journalist, art critic, historian and diplomat. He was the first German ambassador to France following World War II. Life and career Early life Hausenstein wa ...

*1955

Erich Kästner Emil Erich Kästner (; 23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including ''Emil and the Detectives'' and '' Lisa an ...

*1957

Lion Feuchtwanger Lion Feuchtwanger (; 7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Republic, Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. ...

*1958 Reiner Zimnik *1962

Herbert Schneider Herbert Wallace Schneider (March 16, 1892 – October 15, 1984) was a German American professor of philosophy and a religious studies scholar long associated with Columbia University. Born in Berea, Ohio, Schneider completed his undergraduate a ...

*1963

Hellmut von Cube Hellmut is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Hellmut Andics (1922–1998), Austrian journalist, publicist, and writer * Hellmut Bunge (1920–2006), Hauptmann in the Wehrmacht during World War II, recipient of the Knight's Cross ...

*1964

Tankred Dorst Tankred Dorst (19 December 1925 – 1 June 2017) was a German playwright and storyteller. Dorst lived and worked in Munich. His farces, parables, one-act-plays and adaptations were inspired by the theatre of the absurd and the works of Ionesco ...

*1973

Philipp Arp Philipp is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: "Philipp" has also been a shortened version of Philippson, a German surname especially prevalent amongst German Jews and Dutch Jews. Surname * Adolf Philipp (1864� ...

*1975

Janosch Janosch (, born as Horst Eckert on 11 March 1931) is a German children's author and illustrator. Biography Janosch was born as Horst Eckert on 11 March 1931 in what was then Hindenburg (now Zabrze, Poland) in Upper Silesia to a family of mixe ...

*1980

Mathias Schröder Mathias, a given name and a surname which is a variant of Matthew (name), may refer to: Places * Mathias, West Virginia * Mathias Township, Michigan People with the given name or surname ''Mathias'' In music * Mathias Eick, Norwegian Jazz Music ...

*1986

Said Said can refer to: * Speech, or the act of speaking * Saʽid, a male Arabic given name * Said (honorific), a honorific in Islamic culture * Said, Iran (disambiguation), multiple places in Iran * Port Said, a city in Egypt * Saïd Business School ...

*1989

Uwe Timm Uwe Timm (; born 30 March 1940 in Hamburg) is a German writer. Life and work Uwe Timm was born in 1940 in Bad Kreuznach, and was the youngest son in his family. His brother, 16 years his senior, was a soldier in the and died in Ukraine in 1943 ...

*1990 Gert Heidenreich *1991 Carl Amery *1993 Gert Hofmann *1995

Hermann Lenz Hermann Karl Lenz (26 February 1913 – 12 May 1998) was a German writer of poetry, stories, and novels. A major part of his work is a series of nine semi-autobiographical novels centring on his alter ego "Eugen Rapp", a cycle that is also know ...

*1997

Günter Herburger Günter Herburger (6 April 1932 – 3 May 2018) was a German writer. He was initially counted among the "New Realists" funded by , became the author of socialist, imaginative utopian worlds since the 1970s and took an outsider position in German- ...

*1999 Ernst Augustin *2002

*2005 Herbert Rosendorfer *2008

Tilman Spengler Tilman Spengler (born 1947) is a German sinologist, writer, and journalist. The author of more than a dozen books, including ''Lenin's Brain'' (1993),original German edition: ''Lenins Hirn. Roman'', Reinbek: Rowohlt Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-498-06256 ...

*2011 Keto von Waberer *2014 Hans Pleschinski *2017

Mirjam Pressler Mirjam Pressler, born Mirjam Gunkel (18 June 1940 – 16 January 2019) was a German novelist and translator. Being the author of more than 30 children's and teenage books, she also translated into German more than 300 works by other writers from ...

*2020 *2023

References

External links

* Literary awards of Bavaria {{Germany-lit-award-stub